Thursday, May 16, 2013

My mail in my pocket

My favourite technologic object is my android, a kind of cellphone made with cutting edge technology. Besides call my contacts, it serve me to do many of basic functions of a computer because it contains access to internet. I got it about three months ago, recommended by my sister.

The first reason to my preference for this is that i can bring it everywhere, this make possible read an e-mail which could be urgent, in any place without use my PC. If i become bored, i use to navigate in basic pages, like youtube, or chat with my friends, family or classmates in a social network (facebook). When i go on the bus, i don't lose my time, i become read any article or document which serve me to university (an android is best than a notebook for this daily situation). The card inside my android contains a big memory, so if i want to relax i listen music.  This year i joined to university,so currently i use it more than ever. If i don't have this tool ,many of useful things that i do all the days would become to impossible to me. I live very away from university, so i need save on time by many ways, for example, my android.






Thursday, May 2, 2013

Harris Marvin

Harris Marvin was an anthropologist that born in New York (USA) in 1927. He studied in Erasmus Hall High School, and years after he served in the army of USA, since 1945 until 1947. He studied in Columbia's University , and should be noted that he was also interested in architecture and carpentry. His most important contribution to anthropology is a theory called "cultural materialism", and for this reason i take hat off to him. Cultural materialism explain us that material conditions, (humans artefacts or something from the nature) and particular climates are fundamental influences in the progresive creation of any human culture. He had a historic opportunity (1956-57') to study natives that have worked by a very hard way, in Mozambique, in the period that this country was a colony belong to Portugal. This experience was the seed of his world view like a human person, and for his general view about anthropological discipline. Some experts of other disciplenes that influenced to Marvin were Karl Marx, Skinner and Julian Steward, and from the anthropology, Franz Boas. He died in 2001, when he was 74 years old